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TOWERS WILL GET SECOND LATE-NIGHT
CONTROLLEREffective immediately, 27 airport control
towers that have only controller on the overnight shift will get a
second staffer, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said on Wednesday. The decision was made after yet
one more solo controller was caught napping. About 2 a.m. Wednesday
morning, the pilot of a Piper Cheyenne carrying an ill patient on a
medical flight was approaching to land at Reno-Tahoe International
Airport and could not get a response from the tower. Weather was clear
and the pilot landed safely, according to the Associated Press. The Reno controller, who was out
of communication for about 16 minutes, has been suspended while the FAA
investigates. "Air traffic controllers are responsible for making sure
aircraft safely reach their destinations. We absolutely cannot and will
not tolerate sleeping on the job," Babbitt said. "This type of
unprofessional behavior does not meet our high safety
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REQUEST YIELDS INHOFE LANDING DETAILS (WITH AUDIO)Newly
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occupied runway in south Texas, and suggest runway workers may have had
reason to fear for their lives. Three separate audio segments have been
made available through a Freedom of Information Act request, along with
a section of an incident report. AVweb has merged the audio
segments into one file and posted the Incident Report page. Click
through for direct links. More...

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VIRGIN
GALACTIC HIRING SPACE PILOTSVirgin Galactic put out a call for
pilot-astronaut applicants this week, as the company ramps up to offer
tourism flights into space. Virgin is ready to select three candidates,
one to start now and the others to come on board as needed. The pilots
will participate in the ongoing test-flight program for WhiteKnightTwo
and SpaceShipTwo in Mojave and later will help launch commercial
operations and train new pilots at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Virgin is looking for graduates of test-pilot school with experience
flying high-performance jets and large multi-engine aircraft as well as
"low lift-to-drag ratio glide experience (e.g. simulated flameout
landings) in complex aircraft." Their ideal candidate would have
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to meet as NASA winds down its shuttle program, leaving their astronaut
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SPACE
SHUTTLE RETIREMENT HOMES SELECTEDAs the 30-year-old space
shuttle fleet neared final flights, aviation museums around the country
lobbied to get one for their collection, and this week NASA announced final homes for four of the shuttles. The
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
in Virginia will become the new home for shuttle Discovery, which
retired after completing its 39th mission in March. Enterprise, the
first orbiter built, which is now on display there, will move to the
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. Endeavour, which will fly
for the last time later this month, will go to the California Science
Center in Los Angeles. Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle
mission, in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center
Visitor's Complex in Florida. More...

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A380
HITS RJ AT JFK (WITH AUDIO AND VIDEO)An Air France A380's wing
clipped the tail of parked a Comair CRJ 700m, Comair Flight 6293, while
the superjumbo was taxiing Monday night at JFK, and spun the smaller jet
nearly 90 degrees. No major injuries were reported due to the collision.
The same can't be said for the aircraft. Click through for video of the
incident along with a clip that includes the audio exchange that
followed. More...

GPS
COALITION ADDRESSES HOUSE COMMITTEEThe Coalition To Save Our
GPS has added members and is taking its fight to prevent the
potential jamming of GPS signals by a proposed wireless broadband
network to Washington. The coalition, which now counts all major
aviation groups and GPS manufacturers along with marine and agriculture
interests among its members, submitted a statement to the House Energy
and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on the widely
feared impact of LightSquared's plan to erect 40,000 transmission towers
to distribute wireless broadband to rural areas. As we
reported in February, it's not the service itself that has the GPS
group worried, it's the frequency band that's been allocated.
More...

AERO
OPENS APRIL 13Aero Friedrichshafen, Europe's largest general
aviation show and one of the largest in the world, opens April 13 in the
picturesque town on the German shore of Lake Constance. Organizers say
there are more than 550 exhibitors from 26 countries filling more than
800,000 square feet of exhibit space in 11 halls. The show runs through
April 16. The world's major light aircraft OEMs will all be there and
the show is always a showcase of the latest in Light Sport type aircraft
and gliders. Aero was one of the first shows to embrace electric
aircraft and that tradition continues this year. More...

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AVWEB
INSIDER BLOG: WHALE VS. MINNOW AT JFKIs the A380 just too
freakin' big to operate at airports designed in the 1950s? Following
this week's collision between an Air France A380 and a Comair CRJ, you
have to wonder  as Paul Bertorelli does in his latest post to the
AVweb Insider blog. When you read JFK's 36 pages of instructions
for handling an A380, you long for it to end with "just clear the guy to
land at Newark." Read
more and join the conversation.More...

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AVweb's "FBO of the Week" ribbon goes to Great
Lakes Flight Centre at Windsor International Airport (CYQG) in
Windsor, Ontario.

AVweb reader Jeff Lehman
discovered the stellar service at GLFC on on his back from Sun 'n
Fun:

We were just ahead of
some unpleasant weather. (The tornado was long behind us!) As we headed
north, we needed to find an FBO after hours so that we could clear
customs. After several calls and being unsuccessful at several FBOs, we
found Chris at Great Lakes Flight Center in Windsor, Ontario. Not only
did he confirm reasonable fuel prices and customs availability, but he
offered to stay late (over two hours) so we could arrive that night and
stay ahead of the weather. Upon arrival, Chris cheerfully welcomed us
and, after clearing customs, promptly fuelled us up and made hotel
arrangements. After this, he offered to drive us to the hotel and then
come back to tie down the airplanes. We insisted that we help secure the
airplanes, and he drove us to the hotel before he admitted he still had
to head back to do a few things. Chris and Great Lakes deserve
recognition for great service and for going above and
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VIDEO:
MARTIN JETPACK  LATEST TESTSDevelopment of the Martin Jetpack is continuing in New
Zealand, and the latest publicly released video shows it reaching new
heights. However, that's a mannequin onboard and not a human pilot.
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ICAS
FOUNDATION'S KYLE & AMANDA FRANKLIN FUNDThe aviation community is coming together to help Kyle
and Amanda Franklin get back on their feet and eventually back in the
air after their mishap at Air Fiesta at the Brownsville/South Padre
Island Airport. If you'd like to contribute, click on the banner at
right to visit the ICAS Foundation web site. More...

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